Madame Bovary

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Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856 The character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.When the novel was first serialized in La Revue de Paris between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856, public prosecutors attacked the novel for obscenity The resulting trial in January 1857 made the story notorious After Flaubert s acquittal on 7 February 1857, Madame Bovary became a bestseller in April 1857 when it was published in two volumes A seminal work of literary realism, the novel is now considered Flaubert s masterpiece, and one of the most influential literary works in history. Best Read [ Madame Bovary ] By [ Gustave Flaubert ] – kino-fada.fr Oh, Emma Emma, Emma, Emma Darling, why must you make it so easy No, dear, for once I don t mean for the men I mean for everyone else in the world who goes into this book just looking for an excuse to make fun of you I would say that most people don t know that much about France, but they do know a few things that they like their baguettes, their socialism, Sartre, dirrrty dirrty sexy lurrrve and they despise this thing called the bourgeoisie This book doesn t really do a thing to dispr Oh, Emma Emma, Emma, Emma Darling, why must you make it so easy No, dear, for once I don t mean for the men I mean for everyone else in the world who goes into this book just looking for an excuse to make fun of you I would say that most people don t know that much about France, but they do know a few things that they like their baguettes, their socialism, Sartre, dirrrty dirrty sexy lurrrve and they despise this thing called the bourgeoisie This book doesn t really do a thing to disprove any of this though I can t say baguettes had a prominent place in the plot , and I expect that it had a great deal to do with starting the last two stereotypes Emma, my dear, Desperate Housewives isn t your fault, but you can see why some people might blame you, don t you Your constant, throbbing whining about how your plentiful food isn t served on crystal platters, how your dresses of which you havethan a typical co...This is one of the books that has had a profound effect on my life The moral Be happy with what you have and where you are Mme Bovary fritters away her entire life with thoughts of, If only X would happen, THEN I could be truly happy and yet she never is She gets everything she thinks she wants only to find out she s still not content.I read this while I was engaged and at the time, thought, Well, I ll be happier when I m married, but once I am, then life will be fabulous After a few This is one of the books that has had a profound effect on my life The moral Be happy with what you have and where you are Mme Bovary fritters away her entire life with thoughts of, If only X would happen, THEN I could be truly happy and yet she never is She gets everything she thinks she wants only to find out she s still not content.I read this while I was engaged and at the time, thought, Well, I ll be happier when I m married, but once I am, then life will be fabulous After a few years I found myself playing the same role as Mme Bovary Once I can get pregnant and have kids, then I ll be happy Once I m not pregnant and sick any, THEN I can be happy Once we get out of this apartment and into our house, then I will surely be happy Once the baby starts sleeping through the night, I can definitely be happy Once the baby is out ...Oy, the tedium, the drudgery of trying to read this book I tried to get into this story Really, I did It s a classic, right And everyone else likes it I kept making myself continue, hoping I could get into the story and figure out what s supposed to be so good about it.I won t waste anyof my precious reading time on this It s about a self absorbed young wife who longs for anyone else s life except her own When she s in the city, she dreams of the farm When she s in the country, she Oy, the tedium, the drudgery of trying to read this book I tried to get into this story Really, I did It s a classic, right And everyone else likes it I kept making myself continue, hoping I could get into the story and figure out what s supposed to be so good about it.I won t waste anyof my precious reading time on this It s about a self absorbed young wife who longs for anyone else s life except her own When she s in the... Three and a half stars, uprated to 5 stars because I can t get it out of my head 9 April 2012.Not sure what to make of it The self obsessed Emma Bovary was obviously to me a side of Flaubert himself She feels that there is so muchbut her limited life fences her in and instead of drawing into herself, seeing what she has to offer, how to make the best of herself, she wants happiness to come to her just as it does in the romance novels she, and Flaubert, read.I understood that sp...GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, , , , ,GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, , , , ,,, , , ,, , , ,, , ,,,,, , , , , ,, , ,GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Before marriage she thought herself in love but the happiness that should have followed this love not having come, she must, she thought, have been mistaken And Emma tried to find out what one meant exactly in life by the words felicity, passion, rapture, that had seemed to her so beautiful in books You might be surprised to learn that I was mesmerized by Emma s life story I was mesmerized and suffered along with her as she capsized further and further into the ambushes life presented herBefore marriage she thought herself in love but the happiness that should have followed this ...Since I read Quicksand by Nella Larsen this week, Emma Bovary started haunting my mind yet again We are old friends, Emma and I I spent hours and hours over a dictionary at age seventeen in high school, trying to read about her agonies in original French, with only the Isabelle Huppert film as a guidance In fact, I actually think I owe it to Emma Bovary that I finally made it over the threshold to understand written French That ultimately led me to university studies in French literature, and Since I read Quicksand by Nella Larsen this week, Emma Bovary started haunting my mind yet again We are old friends, Emma and I I spent hours and hours over a dictionary at age seventeen in high school, trying to read about her agonies in original French, with only the Isabelle Huppert film as a guidance In fact, I actually think I owe it to Emma Bovary that I finally made it over the threshold to understand written French That ulti...Henry James once said, Madame Bovary has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgment That s right Defies judgment I don t know he looks kind of judgy to meUnfortunately, I had to read a translation as my French is nowhere near good enough to read the original Though I am assured that the prose in the original French are amazing and inspiring.I can certainly a Henry James once said, Madame Bovary has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgment That s right Defies judgment I don t know he looks kind of judgy to meUnfortunately, I had to read a translation as my French is nowhere near good enough to read the original Though I am assured that the prose in the original French are amazing and inspiring.I can certainly appreciate the characterization and story telling ability but I personally struggled with the story as I reconciled what Flaubert seemed to be saying about society, women, women who had affairs, men and roman.... 5 5 2 2 3 400 7 10%

Madame Bovary
  • English
  • 21 July 2017
  • Paperback
  • 329 pages
  • 0192840398
  • Gustave Flaubert
  • Madame Bovary